Thank you for the thorough answer, very helpful. I’ll start poking around!
best regards,
Francois
> On Mar 24, 2019, at 6:27 PM, Dave Gordon <dg32...@zoho.eu> wrote:
>
> I think you would implement it as a new type of filter rule. similar to 'P'
> (preserve) but with a timestamp or delta-time to define what counts as
> 'recent' as well as the pattern to match for this rule to apply (which could
> just be a wildcard matching anything by default, but could also use the full
> pattern-matching capabilities if required).
>
> Have a look at:
> the 'make_backups' logic in parse_arguments(), where it adds a 'Preserve'
> pattern to match all backup files,
> name_is_excluded() and its subfunctions check_filter() and rule_matches() in
> exclude.c
> You'd need to:
> define a new filter-type character ('R' for preserve-Recent?)
> define the format of the filter rule for this type e.g. how to represent the
> time
> add code to parse this new ruletype in rule_matches()
> decide how your new option interacts with existing filter rules (higher or
> lower precedence, degree of specificity, etc)
> add code to insert one or more rules of the new type into the filter list in
> appropriate positions
> Also:
> bump the protocol revision number, because an old rsync wouldn't understand
> the new ruletype
> decide what to do in the case where one side is using the older protocol
> (e.g. treat it as traditional --delete, or don't delete at all?).
> So not trivial, but not impossibly difficult, and at least the changes would
> be fairly localised.
>
> Hope this helps,
> .Dave.
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> ---- On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:02:33 +0000 Francois Payette via rsync
> <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote ----
>
> Kudos all that maintain this awesome and enduring piece of software. Awesome
> job, many thanks.
>
> I’ve come across a use case that would greatly benefit form a
> —delete-older-than <secs> argument. This would behave the same as —delete
> only sparing files dest that have a creating time less than <secs> ago. How
> hard would this be to implement? Where would I start ?
>
> TIA,
> Francois
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